velluminous: (cannot sleep when all you do is cry)
Sprezzatura Vaux ([personal profile] velluminous) wrote in [community profile] hotelcaelum 2023-11-29 03:31 am (UTC)

[ that's an intimacy rarely afforded even to her suitors, for as brief as each one was. and that old wizard paranoia lives in her, too; it isn't just the accomplished greats like Elminster and Mordenkainen. she thinks: he wants to read my books. he wants to learn my secrets. uncover something he can use back in Waterdeep.

she thinks: but he has been so forthcoming...

she has to kill that part of herself. the trusting part.
]

I do not think that is good idea... [ but, to dress it up kinder than, "I don't trust you", she softens it with gentle self-deprecation: ] I am poor enough host when I am awake.

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